iOS Developer

King's Cross, Central London

Posted: 11/03/2019

Closes: 10/04/2019

Hours:Full time

Contract:Permanent

The Guardian is one of the world’s biggest liberal news organisations. We are renowned for our ground-breaking independent journalism, our award-winning digital products and excellent engineering team.

Development of digital products is central to the Guardian. You could be building the products that showcase our progressive and independent journalism, crafting the tools that journalists use to write their stories, developing the services that allow those stories to be distributed across the globe, or safeguarding our financial future.

We create our award-winning iOS application primarily using Swift and Objective-C. We're focussed on providing a fast and stable experience to our users, and our App Store rating of 4.8 stars is testament to that.

You'll be building and testing major new features, as well as improving and maintaining existing functionality

Our current codebase is about 50/50 Objective-C and Swift, so you'll be working with both language on a daily basis

You won’t be coding in isolation - our culture is strongly collaborative, whether pair programming with other developers or working closely with designers, editorial and commercial colleagues.

You'll have a voice in all big decisions the team makes

Sometimes deciding what code to write is as hard as writing the code itself. As an engineer you’ll be involved in product decisions as well as technical ones.

You'll be reviewing the code of other engineers to ensure we maintain our app's high standard

You'll strive to be innovative on a daily basis, as well as at our regular hack days

About You

You are a creative, passionate, and intelligent person who loves technology.

You may love the news or you may want to reinvent it.

You take an interest in why we do things, and you're able to focus on delivering value for your team.

You are, or aspire to be, an expert in iOS development and you have a strong interest in growing your skills.

You can make intelligent choices regarding what technologies to use and when to use them.

You have personal or commercial experience building and deploying iOS applications.

You care about code style and quality

What we offer

Flexible working; for example compressed hours, part-time working and working from home

Generous pension scheme; if you contribute 5% then the Guardian will contribute 8-12% (depending on your age)

Health insurance and dental scheme

26 days annual leave and the option to purchase an extra 5 days

Up to 18 weeks of parental leave at full pay

Cycle to work scheme and subsidised gym membership

Paid volunteering days

Annual season ticket loan

We strive for transparency in remuneration. The salary for new developers at the Guardian is £48k.

We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds, different lived experiences and different perspectives. A diverse team means we can better reflect and engage our global audience.

We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool, and also in including them, fostering a culture where people’s voices can be heard and our employees look forward to coming to work.

Application instructions:

To apply for this position you must already have the right to work in the UK.

Please upload your CV and covering letter as one document. You should also highlight the extent to which your skills/experience meets the requirements of the role and your motivation behind applying.

Our interview process involves three stages: a phone interview, a pairing test and a face to face interview. We offer a remote pairing test for candidates who would have to travel a long distance to our office in London. If you are successful in the phone interview and remote pairing test we will then need to arrange you to come to our offices for a further pairing test and a face to face interview.

We value and respect all differences in all people (seen and unseen) at the Guardian. We aspire to inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future.

At the Guardian, many of our staff work flexibly and we will consider all requests for flexible working arrangements.

Guardian News & Media (GNM) publishes theguardian.com, one of the largest English-speaking quality newspaper websites in the world. Since launching US and Australian digital editions in 2011 and 2013 respectively, traffic from outside of the UK now represents over two-thirds of the Guardian's total digital audience.

In the UK, GNM publishes the Guardian newspaper six days a week, first published in 1821, and the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer.

GNM is the core business of Guardian Media Group (GMG), whose sole shareholder is The Scott Trust Ltd. The core purpose of The Scott Trust is to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity.

Every person - and every organisation - is unique. We all have different goals at work. At Guardian Jobs, we bring together like-minded job seekers and employers to create a happier world of work for everyone.